Sara A Urbas

US Patent:

20090137059, May 28, 2009

Filed:

Aug 25, 2005

Appl. No.:

11/990832

Inventors:

William C. Trogler - Del Mar CA, US
Sara A. Urbas - San Diego CA, US
Sarah J. Toal - Rockville MD, US
Jason Sanchez - La Jolla CA, US

International Classification:

G01N 21/76
C08G 79/14
C08G 77/04
C08G 77/08

US Classification:

436172, 422 681, 528 9, 528 25, 528 15

Abstract:

A method for detecting an analyze that may be present in ambient air, bound to a surface or as part of complex aqueous media that includes providing a metallole-containing polymer or copolymer, exposing the polymer or copolymer to a suspected analyze or a system suspected of including the analyze, and measuring a quenching of photoluminescence of the metallole-containing polymer or copolymer exposed to the system. Also included is a solid state inorganic-organic polymer sensor for detecting nitroaromatic compounds that includes a substrate and a thin film of a metallole-containing polymer or copolymer deposited on said substrate.